Robert Key (politician)
| Robert Key | |
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| Minister for Sport | |
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In office 14 April 1992 – 27 May 1993 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Robert Atkins |
| Succeeded by | Iain Sproat |
| Member of Parliament for Salisbury |
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In office 10 June 1983 – 12 April 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Hamilton |
| Succeeded by | John Glen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 April 1945 Plymouth, Devon, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Irvine |
| Alma mater | Clare College, Cambridge |
| Religion | Church of England |
Simon Robert Key (born 22 April 1945), known as Robert Key, is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury, Wiltshire. He is also Chair of Governors at Salisbury Cathedral School.
Key was born in Plymouth, the son of Maurice Key, afterwards Bishop of Truro. At the age of 10 he was part of a school walk on Swanage Beach in Dorset where he and six friends discovered an old wartime mine which detonated; only Key and one other boy survived. He went to Salisbury Cathedral School, then independent Sherborne School. He studied economics at Clare College at the University of Cambridge, receiving an MA and CertEd. He taught at the Loretto School in Edinburgh from 1967–9, then taught economics at Harrow School from 1969–83.
He contested the Holborn and St Pancras South seat in 1979. He was the Member of Parliament for Salisbury between 1983 and 2010, and was Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities in the Department of the Environment (now DEFRA) from 1990–2, setting up the Inner Cities Religious Council in 1991, and was Minister for Sport at the Department of National Heritage (now Culture, Media and Sport) from 1992–3. He was Minister for Roads and Traffic from 1993–4.
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